Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, the platform told them to

Re:Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, th... by hunter2_ on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:28AM (#25682132)

The flip side is when your friends on the platform don't have enough interest in whatever interest of yours you're trying to learn more about... You go browsing groups and it needs to be sorted/ordered/tailored/suggested somehow unless you want some useless thing like alphabetical order. Should I join A1% Landscaping or Aaron's Aardvarks?

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Re:Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, th... by meheleventyone on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:33AM (#25682168)

So a search engine?

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Re:Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, th... by hunter2_ on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:02PM (#25702053)

Having the list be seeded by your own thoughts means you're still sort of in your bubble. I'm talking about the (important, IMHO) use case of wandering through the world seeing what presents itself. Perhaps ordering by popularity makes sense (simply skip to page nnnn to discover unpopular groups) but that feels like it would also have downsides.

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